Tribeca 2015: ‘Thought Crimes’ Finds Troubling Questions in the Case of the ‘Cannibal Cop’

Gilberto Valle, the “Cannibal Cop,” never ate anyone. Can he still be called a cannibal if he only fantasized about it on the Internet? When he was arrested, the government asserted that conversations he had on the online community DarkFetishNet amounted to a conspiracy to kidnap. Defenders of Valle have insisted that this is an example of prosecution f…